Ego
I cycle through it.
The question isn't whether you'll feel it as an enterprise designer; it's how long you stay in it before doing something useful with what it's telling you.
Eustress is the version that helps: the productive discomfort that tightens your focus, pushes you to close a skill gap, makes you prepare more carefully for the room you're about to walk into. Athletes train with it. It's discomfort aimed at something you can actually change.
The other kind keeps you awake rehearsing conversations that haven't happened, clouds your read of situations where you need to be present, and follows you home.
The difference, as far as I can figure, is whether the anxiety orbits something you can act on. What someone thought of your presentation, whether you got credit for work that got absorbed into a larger initiative, how you landed in a room where the politics were already set: none of that is yours to move.
What I can change is narrow and specific
How I show up tomorrow, whether I ask the question I've been avoiding, whether I do the work that's in front of me. Enterprise design has a lot of invisible contribution — work that gets absorbed, attributed elsewhere, or shipped without fanfare. What can I actually do here, and have I done it?
